Virtual Observatory Software for Astronomers

Welcome to AstroGrid

Launch of Space Shuttle sts-82-1 (NASA) AstroGrid is the doorway to the Virtual Observatory (VO). We provide a suite of desktop applications to enable astronomers to explore and bookmark resources from around the world, find data, store and share files in VOSpace, query databases, plot and manipulate tables, cross-match catalogues, and build and run scripts to automate sequences of tasks. Tools from other Euro-VO projects inter-operate with AstroGrid software, so you can also view and analyse images and spectra located in the VO.

These web pages hold our software for downloading, as well as links to other people's software. They also provide the help documentation, and other support material such as FAQs and the Helpdesk ticket system.

A new updated version of the AstroGrid desktop software (V1.2.0) for astronomers was released on October 8th 2008.

Our latest server component suite (v2008.2) for data centres and individual developers was also released on October 8th 2008 and is available from deployer.astrogrid.org.

Previous versions of our software will still be available for some time: see previous Astrogrid releases.

GETTING
STARTED		 Read a little about the Virtual Observatory
Read a little about the AstroGrid Desktop suite.
Go to the Install area and download the software.
Have a look at the documentation in the Help area.
Start trying it out !

Latest News

October 8th 2008 : new VODesktop release 1.2.0 : AstroGrid is pleased to announce the latest release of VODesktop, version 1.2.0. This release offers a number of new features including more user control in running applications on the VO. Many bug fixes have been made. The full list of new features etc is to be found at http://www.astrogrid.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes . (Note that no changes have been made to other components of the AstroGrid Desktop suite, i.e. Topcat or AstroGrid Python).

Older news is in the Community section

Attachments

Acknowledging AstroGrid. If you make use of the AstroGrid system or tools, we would be grateful if you could acknowledge this use in any resulting publications. You could use these words: 'This research has made use of data obtained using, or software provided by, the UK's AstroGrid Virtual Observatory Project, which is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council and through the EU's Framework 6 programme.' Use of any data discovered or accessed through AstroGrid should of course be mentioned as noted by the data providers.

Licensing and Copyright. AstroGrid software is released under the Academic Free License.. The copyright on the text used in these web pages is owned by the contributing authors. Copyright on images used are assumed to be with the indicated or implied source as appropriate.